Scofield Reference Bible Notes
Hebrews 5

Heb 5:1 For every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins:

sins [See also Heb 5:3.]

Sin. Scofield Romans 3:23, note.

Heb 5:2 Who can have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are out of the way; for that he himself also is compassed with infirmity.

compassed with

clothed with.

Heb 5:4 And no man taketh this honour unto himself, but he that is called of God, as was Aaron.

Aaron

Exo 28:1; Num 16:40.

Heb 5:5 So also Christ glorified not himself to be made an high priest; but he that said unto him, Thou art my Son, to day have I begotten thee.

Thou art my Son, to day have I begotten thee

Psa 2:7.

Heb 5:6 As he saith also in another place, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.

Thou art a priest

Heb 5:5-6; Psa 110:4.

Melchisedec

See Scofield 14:18, note. Melchisedec was a suitable type of Christ as High Priest, because:

1. he was a king-priest (Gen 14:18 with Zec 6:12-13);
2. his name means, "my king is righteous" (cf. Isa 11:5), and he was king of Salem (i.e. "peace," cf. Isa 11:6-9.);
3. he had no (recorded) "beginning of days" (cf. Jhn 1:1), nor "end of life" (cf. Rom 6:9; Heb 7:23-25); nor
4. was he made a high priest by human appointment (Psa 110:4). But the contrast between the high priesthood of Melchisedec and Aaron is only as to person, "order" (or appointment), and duration. In His work Christ follows the Aaronic pattern, the "shadow" of which Christ was the substance (Heb 8:1-6; 9:1-28).

Heb 5:7 Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;

prayers

Mat 26:39, 44.

able to save him

Mat 26:53.

from

out of.

in that he feared

because of his piety.

feared

Scofield Psalm 19:9, note.

Heb 5:8 Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered;

obedience

Phl 2:8.

Heb 5:9 And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him;

being made perfect

Heb 2:10.

salvation

Scofield Romans 1:16, note.

Heb 5:10 Called of God an high priest after the order of Melchisedec.

Called

Saluted.

Heb 5:12 For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.

milk

1Co 3:1-3.

Heb 5:13 For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.

unskilful

hath no experience.